sublimity; at other tim

Brix Sinden <feudalisable <at> ajguil.net>
2010-09-28 17:00:30 GMT

his people, and show off the state of worldly prosperity to which he
had so suddenly attained. He accordingly departed in the
morning, arrayed in hunter's style, and well appointed with everything
benefitting
his vocation. The buoyancy of his gait, the elasticity of his step, and
the hilarity of his countenance, showed that he anticipated, with
chuckling satisfaction, the surprise he was about to give those who had
ejected
him from their society in rags. But what a change was there in his
whole appearance when he rejoined the party in the evening! He came
skulking into camp
like a beaten cur, with his tail between his legs. All his finery was
gone; he was naked as when he
was born, with the exception of a scanty flap that answered the purpose
of a fig leaf. His fellow-travellers at first did not know him,
but supposed it to
be some vagrant Root Digger sneaking into the camp; but when they
recognized in
this forlorn
object their prime wag, She-wee-she,
whom they had seen depart in the morning in such high
glee and high feather,

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Sequra Scherbel <teen <at> csl.sony.co.jp>
2010-03-30 20:11:21 GMT

the start that it would be built of honest stone, or not
at all. No cheap and shoddy brickwork for _me_! Look at Babylon.
It's all brick, and it's always tumbling down. My ambassador
there tells me that it costs a million a year to keep up the walls
alone--mind
you, the walls alone! What must it cost to keep up the palace, with
all that fancy work! "Yes, I grant you that brickwork _looks_ good.
But what of it? So does a cheap cotton night-shirt--you know the
gaudy things those Theban peddlers sell to my sand-hogs down on the
river bank.
But does it _last_? Of course it doesn't.
Well, I am putting up this pyramid to _stay_
put, and I don't give a damn for its looks. I hear all sorts of funny
cracks about it. My barber is
a sharp nigger and keeps his ears open: he brings me all the gossip.
But I let it go. This is _my_ pyramid. I am putting up the
money for it, and I have got to be mortared up in it when I die. So I
am trying to make a good, substantial job of it, and letting the mere
beauty of it go hang. "Anyhow, there are plenty of uglier
things in Egypt. Look at some of those fifth-rate pyramids up
the river. When it comes to shape they are pretty
much the same as this one,
and when it comes to size, they look like warts

Hroned prince, and the guests or dis

Corneluis Squires <regaling <at> jarice.com>
2010-03-27 21:56:37 GMT

N his celebrated work,
the "Chaking" (The Holy Scripture of Tea) he formulated the Code of
Tea.
He has since been worshipped as the tutelary god of the Chinese tea
merchants.
The "Chaking" consists of three volumes and ten chapters. In the first
chapter Luwuh treats of the nature of the tea-plant, in the second of
the implements for gathering the leaves, in the third of the selection
of the leaves. According to him the best quality of the leaves must
have "creases like the leathern
boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty
bullock, unfold like a mist rising out
of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr,
and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain." The fourth
chapter is devoted to the enumeration and description of the
twenty-four
members of the tea-equipage, beginning with the tripod brazier and
ending
with the bamboo cabinet for containing all these utensils. Here we
notice Luwuh's predilection for Taoist symbolism. Also it is
interesting to observe
in this connection the influence of tea on Chinese ceramics.
The Celestial porcelain, as is well known, had its origin in an
attempt to reproduce the exquisite shade of jade, resulting, in the
Tang dynasty, in the blue
glaze of the south, and the white glaze of the north. Luwuh considered
the blue as the ideal colour